washingtonpost.com – Oct 29 – The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered…

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey) October 29, 2014, p. 1 Istanbul ‘Turkey is still the lowest performing country from the OECD on the overall Index,’ reads the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Gender Gap 2014 report. Turkey has shown slight improvement in narrowing its wide gender gap, though it still languishes in the lower reaches of the

Policy Analysis (Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies) October 2014 Emad Y. Kaddorah * Turkey is facing critical choices over immediate military intervention in its own backyard.[1] It can either respond to escalating calls and demands for direct intervention; prioritize its own reading of the internal and regional developments and put its national interests

Gulf News (UAE) Monday, October 27, 2014, p. A4 By Mohammad Akef Jamal * This has begun to worry more than one country in the region wary of the international campaign by the US against the extremists. Wars waged by Daesh ( Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) in both Syria and Iraq have